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dark comedy
noun
- a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- a comedy based on problems of a personal or social nature.
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Was it the subject matter—a dark comedy about a vengeful nurse convincing a man he has AIDS?
One of them, The Accountant, a dark comedy won an Academy Award for best-live action short of 2002.
It's a mixed bag of reviews for the new controversial dark comedy starring two former Disney princesses.
But then it stops being funny because America is not supposed to be dark comedy; it's our actual country.
MacLaine also realized that uncertainty was a major theme in the dark comedy.
The scene of the dark comedy which we are now about to describe was laid in the old princely courtyard.
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